Pirate Bay bigger than all of Scandinavia

Torrent tracker raises record to 25 million peers

Movie pirates can probably find these Pirates on that Pirate if they look hard enough

Just two months after hitting 15 million peers on its file-sharing tracking network, Swedish website The Pirate Bay has gone ten better and raised the record to 25 million.

As TorrentFreak pointed out, that means more people are downloading Pirate-tracked music, movies, TV shows and software using the BitTorrent protocol than there are people in Scandinavia.

Guinness Book

In a cheeky move that's guaranteed not to bear fruit, given the legal grey area The Pirate Bay occupies, the site's founders have asked the Guinness Book of Records to recognise it as the world's largest torrent tracker.

Co-founder Peter Sunde took the opportunity to suggest megacorp content owners get onboard and try to work with the people they brand as pirates to find a way to distribute movies and more legally.

In typical geek-speak, Sunde urged: "Stop hating the future. Be smart and come over from the dark side."